News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-21

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don't you understand Enter my ow
class again. And 1 may as well tell yo
now that 1 shall have to have q tutc
these months to keep me up.
"a tutor!'
"What piece of EXPENSE
"Well, can't help it. That is tn
way Bayard College manages things"
"Why did you persist in goin' there
then? You said you wanted the best
Is this what you call the bestl"
81 don't see no sense i'll your gOin
back"
81 don't expect to ~
"What did you say you wanted tn
tor for then?"
because L do. I aeM have my fou
years education you promised me
Maybe [ will go to Yaie-or Amherai
I don't know. l only know this chill
is asleep here, and that there is no us
of talking. Come ChiPpie, his voic
changing in tone - ''come, Chippie
wake upl Weli go mp to bed together.
''The day after the end of the world,
thought Benton the next morning. Col
lege, or no college, OF what college
Tutor, or no tutor, or whom for tutor
5 Study, or let all study go? The relic
{ from these continuing vexing question
: with his uncle and aunt lay in the com
, pany of his little brother The chilC
/ was thin and feeble after his late illness
J and seemed more quiet than usual
, though he was always sober little fel
low. Benton devoted himself to hi
pleasure, taking him on drives, boating
excursions, and picnics, and was soo1
repaid by the flush Of health returning
T to the pale cheeks and the merry laugl
ringing out in the noisy games in whicl
he was soon able to join.
! Benton's leisure he spent at his books
A keen intellect, a vigorous mind, haC
been his birthright, and, in spite of the
associations now connected with his col
lege work, he continued the regular
studies. His play with his brother and
innumerable callers interrupted his time
much. For he had callers. Never be
fore had he found himself of so much
Importance. 1t seemed to him that
every one who had ever known his faith.
er or his mother or himself now took the
long two miles drive from the village tC
interview him. In courtesy he had not
refused to see them; yet the awkward
ness with which they met him, the ques-
tions about his future with which they
tormented him, the hidden reproofs
which they tried to give him, seemed
sometimee more than he could bear.
The minister called, but, unable to see
through the young mans cloak Ct gave
! ty, avoided the subject altogether. The
! principal storekeeper called, and, taking
it for granted that the college plan was
all over, offered him good wages and
steady work as his bookkeeper, and was
rather taken aback by Berton's decided
''No." Part of the town felt that some
terrible crime had been ''hushed up"
and that it was not to be expected that
''poor Benton would amount to any
thing" the other part felt thai he had
received unmerited punishment from
the college for some slight misdemeanor
''about a book.
Chipman was usually present at all
the talks in the household, but, beyond
showing his interest by stopping his
whistling, or whiting, or whatever he
was about, and watching his brothers
face as if it were indeed very book
from which he could read, never took
part in the wrangling discussions. But as
he grew stronger his brothers I'M happi-
ness became more apparent to thequlck
child's instinct; and as they were sitting
on the rivers bank one afternoon, he
spoke up, abruptly.
Jamie, l wish you would explain it
all to me. I don't understand it at all.
mean why you did-why you came
home"
'You would better not try to under
stand it, Chip, James answered, a lit
tie startled. "I'm sure it has been
talked over till there's nothing left to
understand. Besides, it would only
trouble YOU"
"Please, Jamie, explain it all to me,
the way you do other things" pleaded
Chip"
James knew what the boy meant.
How many times had he carefully and
and kindly explained to the child prin-
ciples of common law-abstract ques-
tions of right or wrong involved in some
boys trouble rtOwn regulation, license,
fines, game laws, gambling, etc.i How
he delighted in using his highest thought
to make plain to the little listener the
real right in the matter, pleased with
the child's clear head and conscientious
nature
But to explain Mis-this, that he had
so CLOSED over in his talk that he could
hardly see it plainly himself-to explain
this to his loyal little brother, who be-
lieved so in his words-to really show
him how the case stood He glanced up
at Chippic, to meet two blue eyes look
ing ut him so earnestly that the tears
had brimmed up from their liquid depths.
James turned away his face for a sec
ond. 1t seemed like some bar of justice
before which he was to speak, and he
must beware not toperjure himself. $50
help me God ~ was his inarticulate
prayer as he turned to his brother
again.
Benton began the miserable story
once more-he might have said for the
fiftieth time. But he did not say SO.
Indeed, it seemed as if this was the first
the first time that he told it all before
his better self. Chapman did not by
any means take the place OF Judge; but
his simple questions seemed searching
in the extreme.
Benton described the valuable library
itself, the many books impossible to re-
place-those endeared by association
with the great men of whose libraries
they had been Il part; those so rare that
no second copy could be obtained; those
so costly that no private owner could
possess them; their ever-increasing num-
Der, already many thousands; the meth
cd of preserving them and of distribut-
ing the books to accommodate readers,
and the great need, to writer's and stu
dents, of books for consultation.
"And was it one of those books z" as
Benton paused.
'No. Out of all those, great num-
ber-many hundreds, Chippie-had
been chosen by the different professors,
and put on shelves convenient for us
students, for us to find handy just
whenever we needed.
"Why only for you?'
because the library belonged to the
college, and we were like the children
of the llege'-seeing now in distinct
outline the bountiful gift, the gracious
favor.
"Didn't You have to write your name
down, you know, the way you told me,
when you sent for one of thOseI'
"No; we could go right to the shelves,
and help ourselves, and no one knew
-realizing the immense trust, the great
appeal to honor.
''And then -
And then Benton explained about the
RIGHT to take home a volume at evening,
returning it at morning; about the great
demand for certain books, till, day after
dav. when one book was looked for,
twas gone-couldn't be found.
ssYou had hidden itf
eyes, Chi man his voice very low,
all the ugliness of deceit against which
he had warned his brother staring at
him in his own deeds.
'eYou wanted it most p
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